Breeding of the scuttle fly Megaselia scalaris in a fish Carcass and implications for the use in forensic entomology (Diptera: Phoridae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 349-353

  De Carvalho Moretti, Thiago ^a   Thyssen, Patrícia Jacqueline ^a   Solis, Daniel Russ ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fish carrion; Forensic sciences; Megaselia scalaris (Loew 1866); Necrophagous flies; Neotropical region

Indexed keywords

CLUPEIDAE; DIPTERA; MEGASELIA SCALARIS; PHORIDAE; SARDINELLA JANEIRO; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 62249156277     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/31/2008/349     Document Type: Article

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